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One School, many schools of thought
Mark Trodden.

School of Arts & Sciences dean Mark Trodden joins faculty in discussion for Omnia’s latest podcast series.

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One School, many schools of thought

A special edition of the Penn Arts & Sciences “Ampersand” podcast features Dean Mark Trodden in conversation with SAS faculty from different disciplines.

Alex Schein

2 min. read

Exploring Philadelphia’s petrochemical past
An illustration of the Philadelphia Gas works complex in 1890

Philadelphia Gas Works in an 1890 illustration. It sat on the east side of the Schuylkill River, between Market and Filbert streets.

(Image: David J. Kennedy. Courtesy of Historical Society of Philadelphia, via petrodelphia.org.)

Exploring Philadelphia’s petrochemical past

Penn historian Jared Farmer recently launched a website about Philadelphia’s fossil fuel economy to help students and residents learn about the local past in larger context.

2 min. read

Performing Bach and considering his world
Hands playing a piano.

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    • Performing Bach and considering his world

    Students in the Performance, Analysis, History class explore and perform on piano the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded among history’s greatest composers. Taught by Jamuna Samuel and Yu Xi Wang, the class contextualizes and demystifies Bach through a historical and geographical lens.

    Mia McElhatton: How climate change affects migration
    Mia McElhatton

    Fourth-year Mia McElhatton is studying the intersection of climate change and migration with an undergraduate research grant from the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy.

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    Mia McElhatton: How climate change affects migration

    Fourth-year philosophy major Mia McElhatton is investigating the effects of climate change on how people move from place to place.

    2 min. read

    Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
    Adelaide Lyall, left, Norah Rami, right

    From left, Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami are Penn's 2026 Marshall Scholars.

    (Images: Courtesy of Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami)

    Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars

    Adelaide Lyall, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Norah Rami, a fourth-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, will receive funding for as much as three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

    2 min. read

    Buddhism behind bars

    Buddhism behind bars

    Kirby Sokolow, a School of Arts & Sciences Ph.D. candidate in religious studies, wants to challenge stereotypes around incarceration and religion.

    From Omnia

    2 min. read

    Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
    A sculpture of a crocodile eatings its tail made in filament and resin.

    “White Ouroboros II” by Allison Janae Hamilton. The Institute for Contemporary Art will feature the first museum survey of the artist in the spring of 2027.

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    Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

    WXPN and the Institute for Contemporary Art each received creative project grants and filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who teaches in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, was named a 2025 Pew Fellow.

    3 min. read

    Gareth Nellis named director of Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India

    Gareth Nellis named director of Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India

    Nellis has been named the new director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, and associate professor of political science, and will hold the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, effective July 2026.

    How might AI shape the future of work?
    Headshots of Konrad Kording (left) and Ioana Marinescu (right).

    Konrad Kording and Ioana Marinescu. 

    (Image: Eric Sucar (left) and Carson Easterly (right))

    How might AI shape the future of work?

    Computer scientist Konrad Kording and economist Ioana Marinescu have developed an interactive model that incorporates assumptions from both their fields to predict how AI will affect wages, jobs, and the overall economy.

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